Geocaching Preferences
I may be rather new at this whole game, but after less than 40 finds I have all ready found my favorite kinds of caches to go for and the ones I just ignore.
I started this for the exercise and not to try and out find or out number the next guy. A nice hike in a rural wooded area is right up my ally while lifting a lamp post skirt in a mall parking lot to find a magnetic key holder is a waste of time for me. Yes, I have found a couple of the lamp post micro caches just to see what they were like.
I have also cached in a couple of suburban parks and found that to be an OK experience it doesn’t come close to my preference of the deep, wooded hike where the chances of even seeing another person are pretty slim.
Perhaps in another 10 years or so when it becomes tougher to make the harder terrain hikes I will have a different attitude but for now this is the kind of place I like to do my caching.
Here’s another hike I took my grand kids on:
They just loved the moss on the roots of this large tree where very few people have walked in the last few years. That not something you can experience hunting down micro caches in a parking lot.
May 22nd, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Cute grandkids and really cool tree!
May 22nd, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Thanks Karen, I’m afraid I walked their poor little legs off on that hike. We have been out to a few simpler ones since then but of course, I didn’t have the camera.
June 9th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Just stumbled across your blog while trying to find hints on geocaching. We just started this week and decided to go for the urban micros because we thought they might be easier. I was wrong. We’ve gone to landscaped islands in the middle of a parking lot and hunted and hunted and failed to find anything. Maybe I’ll follow your lead and head to the woods. I’m definitely more comfortable there.
June 9th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
I agree, the caches in the woods are by far my favorites. I may hunt micros in the future but the hikes in the rural areas are why I do this, for now:-)